Quote Originally Posted by Skav View Post
My son is in 6th grade and has failed the last 3 tests because I helped him review. I show him how to do the problem, double check the answer and he understands it. Next day he comes home all upset because he missed 12 out of 15 problems on the test. I check and the answers are right. He just didn't get the answer the new way. It's the stupidest thing I've ever seen. It takes 5 minutes to do a problem that should take 1 minute. The thing that really chaps me is that I asked his teacher to call/email me to discuss how I can help him study better. That was two weeks ago and still no contact.

I'm frustrated because I feel like I can't help him study anymore. It doesn't logically make sense to solve the problem the way cc is asking yo to solve it.

Total waste of time and our kids are really going to suffer for it.
X2, sixth grade here too and my personal favorite is when they ask to "explain" the math answer. Wait, I thought that's what the answer does? That's when you realize as a parent, your "help" is useless since we only know "dumb" math.

I was in a computer programming class last semester and the instructor says "Come on guys, this is the same math you learned in sixth grade". Uh, not 37 years ago (math).